• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of Inverellochy, Marchemond Herald

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of Inverellochy, Marchemond Herald

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of Inverellochy, Marchemond Herald

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of Inverellochy, Marchemond Herald and (after 1512)

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut. Section on the lion., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut. Section on the lion. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of Inverellochy, Marchemond

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut. Section on the boar, the greyhound, the dragon and the bull., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut. Section on the boar, the greyhound, the dragon and the bull. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut. Section on the griffin, the modewarp (mole), the tiger, the horse and the bear., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut. Section on the griffin, the modewarp (mole), the tiger, the horse and the bear. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was

• Explicit of the 'vii Deeds of Honoure and their Seven Crownys'. Coloured drawing of the seventh crown., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Explicit of the 'vii Deeds of Honoure and their Seven Crownys'. Coloured drawing of the seventh crown. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of Inverellochy, Marchemond Herald and (after 1512)

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut. Section on the leopard and the hart., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut. Section on the leopard and the hart. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of Inverellochy, Marchemond Herald

• Text pages with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text pages with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of Inverellochy, Marchemond Herald

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of Inverellochy, Marchemond Herald

• Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms., Various heraldic treatises, including 'the Gaige of Battail' (ff. 1-5), heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut (ff. 5-44), 'The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry', translation of the French version of Ramon Lull's 'Le libre del ordre de cavayleria' (ff. 83-109), a poem on heraldry (ff. 151-155), Tractatus de nobilitate (ff. 155-164v), De duellis (ff. 164v-173v), imperfect

Text page with heraldry from a heraldic treatise by Adam Loutfut; coats of arms. This manuscript was compiled in 1494 by Adam Loutfut, a Scottish scribe who was in the service of Sir William Cummyn of Inverellochy, Marchemond Herald

• Detail of the bottom border of the folio with a bas-de-page scene of a messenger delivering a letter to a man seated at a desk., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Historiated initial 'D'., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Detail of the left-hand border., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Foliate border with four portraits of philosophers in roundels, putti, the coat of arms of Aragon, and a large historiated initial 'D'(ivina) of Plato in his study., Opera

collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘24 die Junij, A.D. 1723’ (f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime

• Zoomorphic initial 'C'(allimachi), partly formed of two fish or dolphins, at the beginning of Book 3 of Propertius's Elegies., Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

1 perhaps originally had arms supported by putti. 1 large initial (erased), with a white vine border (erased) (f. 1).1 large initial, in colours and gold (over an erasure, f. 1).1 large zoomorphic initial, painted (f. 36v).

• Decorated initial 'C'(ynthia), at the beginning of Propertius's Elegies., Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

1 perhaps originally had arms supported by putti. 1 large initial (erased), with a white vine border (erased) (f. 1).1 large initial, in colours and gold (over an erasure, f. 1).1 large zoomorphic initial, painted (f. 36v).